FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 7 March 2013

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Lee and Steve Cottrells for fixing problems from this morning

Volunteers to help craft a new welcome message: Steve[1]
SEO optimization on five U.S. Wiki pages has begun - Plymouth - Plymouth County - Boston - New York City - Georgetown County (David) We'll be anxious to see the results.
Experiment with putting in a paragraph with genealogy in it as opposed to putting it in the title
This could take up to 6 months to be sure if this is the way to go
Titles have been changed slightly, other small changes have been made
News Event box - FHL council agree with taking that out of pages where they are not being used. Poland and Czech Republic pages are using and updating their boxes. Moderators should be contacted about removing it from their pages

Met 6 March - discussed policy of linking rather than bulk copy and paste.
Large extracts are being copied and pasted in multiple pages, creating duplications and adding unnecessary information
Council will work with FH library group to resolve this issue if it's missionaries or consultants
Some pages need to be merged and sourced
Stage site - issue with large screens

Consider the possibility of changing the schedule of this meeting - bi-weekly? Monthly?
We will need a new moderator for this meeting by the end of April
Talk to people at RootsTech breakfast who might be interested in moderating
General opinion is that meetings should be kept weekly
Breakfast at RootsTech March 21 at 7:15 at the Family History Library on the third floor staff lunch room
Parking may be limited at RootsTech

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Purpose of the meeting
Improve the Wiki Forge solutions with other community contributors. Share best practices, ideas, and content. Discuss current issues, community matters, and strategies. Move issues to decision.